Final Fantasy

FFVII Advent Children Japanese DVD

Posted 2005-06-22 (水) 午前12:49 by terra

Happened to be at the Amazon website looking at Kyou Kara Maou stuff when I saw the link to the Advent Children DVD page As usual Japanese DVDs are ridiculously expensive.

Can’t wait for this movie to be out, especially with Sakurai Takahito

Thought I’d just post the specs from the Amazon site here (additional English comments in bold added by me):

内容紹介

【ストーリー】

あの戦いから2年。繁栄の極みにあった魔洸都市「ミッドガル」は廃墟と化したが、人々は再建への道を確実に歩んでいた。だが、「星痕症候群」と呼ばれる謎の病が人々を苛む。治療法もなく、冒された者を次々と死に至らしめるこの病は、希望を取り戻しつつあった人々の新たな脅威となった。デリバリーサービスを営みながら孤児と共に静かに暮らしていたクラウドは、先の戦いで大事な仲間達を失ってしまった心の傷に胸をいため、深い自戒と罪の念に心を閉ざしていた。ある日、クラウドに仕事を依頼する一本の電話が入る。依頼内容は、カダージュと呼ばれる男からの護衛を依頼するものだった。若く、凶暴なカダージュ達。やがて彼らの魔の手は、クラウドと共に住んでいた孤児たちにも伸びる。その目的は何なのか。何故クラウドを狙うのか。避けようのない戦いを前に思い悩むクラウド。「罪って許されるのか？」長き葛藤の末、戦いの決意を固めるクラウド。ついに、カダージュ達との、人知を超えた戦いが幕を開ける。

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Amazon, Cloud クラウド, DVD, Final Fantasy, Morikawa Toshiyuki 森川智之, Sakurai Takahiro 櫻井孝宏, seiyuu 声優

「私は思い出にはならないさ」

Posted 2005-05-17 (火) 午後10:43 by terra

“Watashi wa omoide ni wa naranai sa”…ends 3 of the trailers in Final Fantasy Advent Children, Squaresoft’s attempt at mythologising the iconic villain Sephiroth. カッコいい‼

Other favourite one-liners:
“I am Alpha and Ome’ga, the beginning and the end” — Revelation 21:6
“I am Legend” — Richard Matheson
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” — Robert Oppenheimer (though technically the line did not originate from him)

And as recommended by 傑義, I just watched the FF7 opening remake that was created specially for the PS3 technology demo. Pretty cool, seeing how much technology has evolved over the past 8 years. Before I saw the demo, I actually saw the screenshots, thinking that they were screenshots of the movie, except they seemed a little pixellated. I thought, maybe they were production screenshots or something… Wow.

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Learnings & Quotations, Raves and Rants

Tags: Final Fantasy, Japanese, Square-Enix, Squaresoft

Anticipating: 2004-05-21

Posted 2004-05-21 (金) 午後3:02 by terra

The two Chinese films currently showing at Cannes:

2046

Wong Kar Wai’s 2046 - A Writer’s Desk Wong Kar Wai’s 2046 - Mailboxes Wong Kar Wai’s 2046

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Tags: 2046, Cannes, cinema, Final Fantasy, Kaneshiro Takeshi 金城武, Square-Enix, Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Ziyi

Good intentions

Posted 2002-01-06 (日) 午前1:13 by terra

I had meant to sleep early: my eyes are almost hurting because they are so tired and dry. Looking at the time now however — I guess not.

I wanted to mention something about this last year (actually, to be less vague, over a week ago) in my blog, but because blogger.com was down, I put off the update until I forgot all about it. Anyways, just wanted to say that I watched Miyazaki Hayao’s Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi last week in the best cinema in Singapore and totally loved it. I can’t wait for it to be released on DVD. I already have the Mononoke Hime DVD at home, so it’ll be the second Miyazaki film that I’ll purchase.

While we’re on the topic of Miyazaki films, My Neighbour Totoro was showed on TV on New Year’s Day morning. I only managed to catch the last half-an-hour of it. However, the version that was being shown was the Chinese-dubbed version of it, which as usual sounded awful. To make it worse, the broadcasters must have used an old copy of the film or something because the picture quality wasn’t too fantastic. The colours looked murky and the lines of the drawings were blurred.